Ippudo

This is 95% complete Japanese Ippudo ramen!!! The reason of 5% is that there is no free moyashi and takana.

There is special meal for students. It includes ramen, gyoza and 1 drink. It's just only £10! I love this kind of reasonable meal so much.

My Tabelog score: 3.5

※ P.S. Student promotion has finished on 1 November 2015. I'm sad.

Kanadaya

It was typical tonkotsu ramen. Most tonkotsu ramen have a nasty smell, but this ramen didn't have it.
The price of ramen was around 10 pounds. Onigiri(rice ball) was 2 pounds and kaedama(extra noodle) was also 2 pounds.

My favorite point in this restaurant was there were a lot of free topping including takana;

If there weren't special meal for students in Ippudo, I might prefer to this restaurant.

My Tabelog score: 3.48

wasabi

This is a famous chain of Japanese restaurant in London. The price is reasonable.
You can eat in or you can also take away.

I bought nigiri. Salmon was good, but other nigiri are not good.
One of the biggest problem is that rice wasn't tasty.

You should buy chickenkatsu-curry here. The taste is good and you can eat two chickenkatsu. The price was around 6 pounds 5.45 pounds. I noticed that the quality of curry was good in London.

One of the biggest problem is they didn't give me spoon. I had to use folk and knife instead of spoon. It was quite difficult to eat curry without spoon.

2015年10月22日木曜日

Do you know Dragons Den? It's a TV program which is very similar to 'Tigers of Money(マネーの虎)'.

One of my classmates said that this kinds of programs would help people to think the success is to earn money.

There may be some truth in what he said.

Another classmate said that, in a business, the money is success but in a life, money is not success.

I thought it was a good opinion. But I'll try to make a case against the opinion.

Of course, the main purpose, or only purpose, of a business is to earn money. But can we do anything for money? For example, making players addicted to video game is one of the best way to earn money for video game company. But I don't want to create such kinds of games.

In the view point of capitalism or in the view point of free market economy, it might be true, but I don't want to support this idea.

Anyway talking about this kinds of topic in the class is quite exciting, not least when the people who join the discussion are very different nationalities. I love that.

And I was convinced that I'd had a good class mates through this discussion :)

Incidentally, of course, Dragons Den originates in Japanese TV program 'Tigers of Money(マネーの虎)'. But when I referred to that in my class, one of my classmates said to me 'Oh! Come on! Chinese people always say like that'.

2015年10月13日火曜日

This book is written about luck factor. The author researched luck people and unlucky people and tried to find common feature of these people. He advocates 4 principles and 12 sub principles.

Here are these principles.

Principle One: Maximise Your Chance Opportunities

Lucky people build and maintain a strong 'network of luck’.

Lucky people have a relaxed attitude towards life.

Lucky people are open to new experiences in their lives.

Principle Two: Listen to Your Lucky Hunches

Lucky people listen to their gut feelings and hunches.

Lucky people take steps to boost their intuition.

Principle Three: Expect Good Fortune

Lucky people expect their good luck to continue in the future.

Lucky people attempt to achieve their goals, even if their chances of success seem slim, and persevere in the face of failure.

Lucky people expect their interactions with others to be lucky and successful.

Principle Four: Turn Your Bad Luck Into Good

Lucky people see the positive side of their bad luck.

Lucky people are convinced that any ill fortune in their life will, in the long run, work out for the best.

Lucky people do not dwell on their ill fortune.

Lucky people take constructive steps to prevent more bad luck in the future.

quoted from Wiseman, Richard (2011-01-25). The Luck Factor:

After I understood these principles, I tried to change my attitude according to the principles. One of the feature of lucky people is that they often chat to strangers. So I attempted to talk to strangers during my last vacation.

I attempted to talk to a man who was next to me on the Ferry. I said 'Shall I take your picture?' and subsequently asked where he came from. His name was Shuman and he came from USA. We became friendly. Consequently, we travelled for three days together.

It was not only fun but also a great opportunity to improve my English.

The next time, I attempted to talk to a woman who was on the same tour in Iceland. I just said 'Are you Japanese?' and she was Japanese. After we had a few conversation we discovered there were a lot of people who we both knew. What a coincidence! We became friendly and enjoyed the tour and went to dinner together. The experience became a very good memory in my life.

I think the principles which the author advocates are lack of qualitative evidence. But, in my case, they actually worked out. It was very exciting experience, so I recommend that you read this book and try some exercises which the author suggests.

Taro is located near Piccadilly Circus. I ordered Katudon which is fried pork with egg, onion and rice.

Actually, it was Katudon but it was not so good because of lack of 'dashi'. 'Dashi' is a soup made from dried bonito or kombu which is a kind of kelp. It includes a lot of glutamine acid which is necessary for tasty food. Glutamine Inosinic acid plays a very very important role for Japanese foods.

I didn't percept 'dashi' from this Katudon. That is why I wasn't satisfied with it.